Seit dem vierten Quartal 2014 wird im Rahmen des »Ifo World Economic Survey« (WES) die Frage nach der erwarteten Inflationsrate in drei bis fünf Jahren gestellt. Die Ergebnisse dieser Frage werden für einzelne Länder sowie aggregiert für wichtige Wirtschaftsräume (wie z.B. den Euroraum)...

Im August übertraf der Anstieg der Verbraucherpreise in Deutschland mit 2,1% erstmals seit 31 Monaten wieder die 2%-Marke (Westdeutschland: 2,0%; Ostdeutschland: 2,4%). In Westdeutschland ist die Rate im September nach vorläufigen Schätzungen des Statistischen Bundesamtes zwar wieder auf 1,8%...

The dynamics of the US economy are modelled using a time-varying structural vector autoregression that incorporates information from the yield curve. We find important changes in the dynamics of macroeconomic variables such as inflation and the federal funds rate. In addition our results suggest...

Recent empirical work documents substantial disagreement in inflation expectations obtained from survey data. Furthermore, the extent of such disagreement varies systematically over time in a way that reflects the level and variance of current inflation. This paper offers a simple explanation...

Historical estimates of the Fisher effect and the informational content in the yield curve may not be relevant after a change in monetary policy. This paper uses a small dynamic rational expectations model with staggered price setting to study how central bank preferences (and thereby monetary...

This paper considers the evidence of “near-rationality,” as described by Akerlof, Dickens, and Perry (2000). Using detailed surveys of household inflation expectations for the United States and Sweden, we find that the data are generally unsupportive of the near-rationality hypothesis....

Inflation expectations have wide-reaching effects on the macroeconomy and are an important part of the transmission of monetary policy. This paper analyses the Melbourne Institute survey of householders’ inflation expectations. Householders’ average inflation expectations vary with personal...

The authors present a pedagogical graphical exposition to illustrate the stabilizing effect of price target zones. Based on a textbook AD-AS apparatus, they find that authorities’ commitment to defend a price target zone will affect the public’s inflation expectations and, in turn,...

The majority of academic research on central bank communication has analysed a central bank’s audience as a single group. Analyses, especially empirical research have focused almost exclusively on a central bank’s interaction with the financial markets, facilitated by the...